The Crowd Supply Programmable-Air is a hardware toolkit that allows you to inflate and deflate objects. It has everything you need to start playing with pneumatics and inflatables including high pressure and vacuum pumps, valves, and a pressure sensor on board. Pneumatics opens up a world of possibilities for a maker to explore:
Programmable-Air is packed with:
The output from Programmable-Air is a single tube that goes into your soft robot or pneumatic actuator. By controlling the motors and valves, you can push air in or out of the actuator, or let it exchange air with the atmosphere. All while you get feedback about the state of the actuator through the pressure sensor.
The Programmable-Air library makes it easy to control the valves and pumps. Simple functions like blow()
, suck()
, vent()
, and readPressure()
cover most of the basic use cases. There is detailed documentation on the project GitHub.
All you need to kick-off is an Arduino Nano, power supply (12 V, 1.5 A barrel jack), and a USB cord.
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